VMware vmtoolsd documentation

[thelittlemouse]

Hi

Can you help me to find some documentation which describes the vmtoolsd tool available on the guest VMs.

I already found some documentation how to install VMware tools in general.

On some forums I found that for example

vmtoolsd --cmd "info-get guestinfo.ovfEnv" retrieves the OVF section of the VM from the guest.

What other commands are available?

Is is possible to set guest properties from the guest VM?

Best wishes,

Denes

[aneverov]

Hi Denes,

I don't know where is the official doc, but quick googling gives these links:

http://tech.lazyllama.com/2010/06/22/passing-info-from-powercli-into-your-vm-using-guestinfo-variabl...

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.vmware.tools.user/121

Notice that first link talks about persistent vs. non-persistent properties. I didn't try it myself, but the description makes sense.

From within customization we use something like:

${CMD_VMWARE_GUESTD} --cmd "info-set guestinfo.gc.status '$message'"

that's how we can report an error.

/Andrii